The Illinois Attorney General has opened an investigation into the money granted in a Barack Obama earmark in 2001 to the spouse of a campaign aide, thanks to the investigative work of the Chicago Sun-Times.

A $100,000 state grant for a botanic garden in Englewood that then-state Sen. Barack Obama awarded in 2001 to a group headed by a onetime campaign volunteer is now under investigation by the Illinois attorney general amid new questions, prompted by Chicago Sun-Times reports, about whether the money might have been misspent.

How much would you pay for a gazebo? $100,000? Ask Barry.

Obama vowed to “work tirelessly” to raise $1.1 million to help Smith’s organization turn the City of Chicago-owned lot into an oasis of trees and paths. But Obama lost the congressional race, no more money was raised, and today the garden site is a mess of weeds, chunks of concrete and garbage. The only noticeable improvement is a gazebo.

Sen. Barack Obama — $54,416 Rezko has been friends with Obama for 17 years. As a lawyer at a small Chicago law firm, Obama worked on low-income housing deals involving Rezko’s company. Rezko has been Obama’s political patron since he ran for the Illinois Senate a dozen years ago. Obama has apologized for buying a piece of property from Rezko’s wife last year to expand his yard.

The Obama campaign has cried foul when Bill Ayers comes up, claiming “guilt by association.” Yet the issue here isn’t guilt by association; it’s guilt by participation. As CAC chairman, Mr. Obama was lending moral and financial support to Mr. Ayers and his radical circle. That is a story even if Mr. Ayers had never planted a single bomb 40 years ago.

More “Kansas values”. There must be a lot of socialist/marxist types in Topeka.

It seems like all historic avenues with Obama lead to anti-American fringe leftists. Some might be nice and call it socialism, others might say his connections with “red” people are just a big fat coincidence.

We’ll see.

Obama’s idea of America is not the idea of America that I fought for in the Army.

It’s an arbitrary and divisive with the state at the center of everything.

So where do our freedoms come from? Christian philosopher Francis Schaeffer knew- this is from 1982:

And finally this video, also from Francis Schaeffer, talks about abortion, man being the measure of all things, and one of my favorite quotes,

If there is no absolute by which to judge society, society is absolute.

Watching CNN cover the McCain-Palin event in Washington, PA today. They are almost laughing at Palin’s experience as city council member, mayor and governor. Funny, these experience arguments are just now popping up. Haven’t heard too many laughs at the self-created, multiple question mark title of “community organizer.”